Deliberation and Anti-Deliberation in the Western Balkans
Prospects for Deliberative Democracy in the Age of Democratic Backsliding
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This open access book examines deliberative and anti-deliberative practices in post-conflict contexts marked by democratic backsliding. It compares how deliberative ideals are upheld and violated across different deliberative domains, including parliaments, citizens’ assemblies, social media and engagement between local and international actors. The authors identify anti-deliberation as the active violation of deliberative norms through exclusion, manipulation and domination, along with weaponisation of difference. The expansion of anti-deliberation restricts the space for good-quality deliberation and accelerates democratic backsliding.
This edited collection is useful to scholars of democracy, deliberation and communication with its novel comparative perspective on the quality of deliberation, to policy-makers and civil society with its insights on supporting deliberation, and to international peace-builders working on democratisation and reversing democratic backsliding.
Ivor Sokolić is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire and Visiting Fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Denisa Kostovicova is Professor of Global Politics at the European Institute and Lead of the LSEE Research on South East Europe Programme at the Hellenic Observatory, both at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Irena Fiket is Senior Research Fellow and Academic Coordinator of the Laboratory for Active Citizenship and Democratic nnovations at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.This open access book examines deliberative and anti-deliberative practices in post-conflict contexts marked by democratic backsliding. It compares how deliberative ideals are upheld and violated across different deliberative domains, including parliaments, citizens’ assemblies, social media and engagement between local and international actors. The authors identify anti-deliberation as the active violation of deliberative norms through exclusion, manipulation and domination, along with weaponisation of difference. The expansion of anti-deliberation restricts the space for good-quality deliberation and accelerates democratic backsliding.
This edited collection is useful to scholars of democracy, deliberation and communication with its novel comparative perspective on the quality of deliberation, to policy-makers and civil society with its insights on supporting deliberation, and to international peace-builders working on democratisation and reversing democratic backsliding.
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Provides a rigorous analysis of deliberative and anti-deliberative communication in non-democratic regimes Identifies innovatively the micro- and macro-level constraints on good quality deliberation Offers novel insights for the use of deliberation in promotion of democracy and peace
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Ivor Sokolic
Themen in »Deliberation and Anti-Deliberation in the Western Balkans«
Open Access Democracy Deliberation Anti-deliberation Deliberative democracy Democratic backsliding Polarisation Post-conflict peacebuilding Balkans Yugoslavia Kosovo Bosnia-Herzegovina Serbia North Macedonia